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Plate 8 Parmelia conspersa, a "papery" lichen of worldwide range. Plate 9 Easter lichen (Stereocaulon paschale), an intricately branched "shrubby" lichen species, planted on a shard of pahoehoe lava. At Grand Ridge Nursery, Issaquah, Washington. Page 31 Chapter Three In the Gardens of Japan Mosses invited themselves into the gardens of Japan and thereby invented moss gardening. It happened the same way that so much of garden art has happened throughout the world. Worthy plants appear in a garden unexpectedly from seed.
In this view, a mere handspan of moss may project the hopeful vision of a forested world, greenly wholesome. Ryoanji Garden in Kyoto is a prime example of this illusory size and extent seen in small patches of Polytrichum. Centuries old, the garden is a flat oblong framed by a stucco wall. The ground area is not largeabout the size of a tennis court, as I recall in mind's eyebut is famous for its infiniteness. The floor of the garden is covered with coarse sand from which arise several groupings of stones.
8 hectares), Saihoji is Japan's, and the world's, most extensive example of a naturalistic moss garden: natural, but not Nature's own, and by Nature's measure, not large. In purely natural environments such as among coastal rocks, in forests, on moors and tundras, mosses cover miles of ground. Saihoji is natural in that its mosses planted themselves, and in that its trees and shrubs are left unpruned to form their own growth patterns and to provide shade for the mosses. Saihoji probably fails to qualify for that Holy Grail of modern gardening, however, the low-maintenance landscape.
